Gaan Baksho Music

31/12/2025

As the New Year begins here in Australia, we step forward with renewed energy, creativity, and purpose.

At GBM, we are thankful to our partners and collaborators worldwide who continue to trust us with their music and their rights. Your work drives everything we do.

Here’s to a year of stronger releases, global reach, and meaningful growth across the music ecosystem.

Wishing you a creative, successful, and prosperous New Year.
— Team Gaan Baksho Music

Image credit: Sydney Harbour New Year’s Eve Fireworks

12/12/2025

09/12/2025

Spotify doesn’t stop using your track after 999 streams. It just stops paying you.

Since 2024, Spotify only starts paying recorded royalties once a track hits 1,000 streams in 12 months. So what happens to all the music sitting under that line? It doesn’t disappear. It’s still on the platform, still sitting in playlists, still keeping listeners there… it’s just not earning.

For labels, publishers and rights admins in Australia and the US, that has some big implications:

# The “shadow catalogue”
How much of your catalogue is quietly sitting under 1,000 streams?
Those tracks still feed the algorithm, but effectively become unpaid inventory.
Are you actually tracking this, or is it out of sight, out of mind?

# Volume vs intentional releases
For years the advice was “just release more.”
Now, if a track never gets near 1,000 streams, it becomes a cost centre.
Would your catalogue be stronger if you released less often but more intentionally – with proper pre-save, marketing and audience-building behind each release?

# Admin and metadata = real money
If only monetised tracks get paid, every error hurts more.
Wrong splits, missing registrations, messy metadata – how many dollars are leaking out of your catalogue because of admin gaps?
Do you have a clear owner for this part of the business?

At Gaan Baksho Music, we spend a lot of time helping artists, writers and labels turn scattered releases into a catalogue that actually earns – cleaning up data, tightening strategy and making sure the money has somewhere correct to land.

We’re curious how are you adjusting your release strategy for the 1,000-stream rule?
1. Are you already auditing your “shadow catalogue”?
2. What’s working (or not) for you in AU / US markets right now?
3. We’d love to hear how other labels, managers and rights teams are approaching this.

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28/11/2025

They claim the deal will “open new frontiers in music creation, interaction, and discovery, while both compensating and protecting artists, songwriters, and the wider creative community”.

The deal also settles previous litigation between the companies.

31/10/2025

We’re proud to support “Ausify”, an inspiring initiative encouraging everyone to discover and share local artists.

Get behind — because Aussie music deserves to be heard. 🇦🇺

11/09/2025

Australian design powerhouse Canva has partnered with Apple Music — unlocking a suite of ready-made, Apple Music–approved design templates now available to you.

Full: https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/1222267/165225120123585666

10/09/2025

From Local to Global: Why Independent Artists Are Winning in 2025
Read: https://gaanbaksho.com/indie-music-distribution-global/

07/09/2025

A $1.5 Billion Boardroom Lesson: AI & Copyright Reckoning

Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit from authors and publishers, accused of using pirated books to train its Claude chatbot. Pending court approval in San Francisco, this marks the largest copyright recovery in history—and a wake-up call for every AI company and boardroom.

Key Figures:
• ~$3,000 per book × ~500,000 titles
• Establishes a de facto licensing benchmark across music, images, film, and journalism
• Demonstrates that licensed data is far less costly than litigation

Significance:
• Judge Alsup ruled pirated books “inherently, irredeemably infringing”
• Potential damages were in the hundreds of billions
• Anthropic settled to avoid catastrophic exposure

Industry Implications:
1. Music publishers (e.g., Universal, Concord) preparing similar claims—1M songs could equal $3B in liabilities
2. Stock image libraries: tens of millions of works could result in claims in the tens or hundreds of billions
3. European rights holders are likely to pursue similar compensation

Outstanding Issues:
• The settlement does not address AI-generated outputs, leaving future disputes unresolved

Boardroom Takeaway:
This is more than a settlement—it is a governance milestone. Intellectual property has been validated as a central asset in the AI era, and the era of “use now, justify later” is ending. Companies must prepare for structured licensing deals, provenance warranties, and per-work pricing models.

For boards and directors, the responsibility extends beyond compliance—this is a fiduciary duty in the age of generative AI. The next $1.5 billion lesson could arise in music, images, or film—are boardrooms ready?

02/09/2025

Switching platforms just got easier!!

You can now transfer your playlists, songs & albums from Spotify and other services straight into Apple Music. No need to rebuild from scratch, keep your music journey seamless while enjoying Apple’s sound quality & exclusive features.

02/08/2025

We are pleased to announce the official launch of our sister company GBM PUBLISHING in the APAC on 1st August 2025, marking a significant step forward in our mission to empower and represent music creators worldwide.

Since 2018, GBM Publishing has been actively collecting mechanical royalties, performance royalties, broadcast royalties and all other music rights income under reciprocal agreements with all major Collection Societies, CMOs, RAEs, MROs, and PROs worldwide.

With this expansion, we are especially proud to support songwriters who have not yet registered for an IPI number, offering them a pathway into the global music rights ecosystem with full administrative support, royalty tracking, and representation across all platforms.

This milestone reflects our continued commitment to bridging gaps in music publishing infrastructure and ensuring every creator has access to the royalties they’ve earned.

For more information, visit https://gbmpub.com/ or contact [email protected].